The book is based on stochastic theory of sediment motion, particularly the theory of transition intensities.It provides a complete theory and equation system of non-equilibrium transport of non-uniform suspended load. The content proposed theory reports, for the first time in literature, the general boundary condition of diffusion equations of non-equilibrium transport with transition intensities. The book also introduces the theoretical expressions of size distribution of the car...

Australian Banking and Finance Law and Regulation provides a comprehensive, up-to-date and accessible introduction to the complexities of contemporary law and regulation of banking and financial sectors in one volume. The book provides a detailed analysis of Australia's financial market regulatory framework and the theoretical underpinnings of government intervention in the field. It delves into the legal changes implemented in response to the Global Financial Crisis and recent local scand...

This book provides essential information on emergency management. It is composed of two parts, addressing the basic theory and related methods of emergency management, including risk management, coordination management, crisis management and disaster management. By putting the emphasis on interdisciplinary, systematic perspectives and building a bridge between basic knowledge and further research, it is well suited as an emergency management textbook and offers a valuable guide to prepare ...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-competition proceedings of the AI Ops Competition on Large-Scale Disk Failure Prediction, conducted between February 7th and May 15, 2020 on the Alibaba Cloud Tianchi Platform. A dedicated workshop, featuring the best performing teams of the competition, was held at the 24th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2020, in Singapore, in April 2019. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the workshop was hosted online.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd China National Conference on Chinese Computational Linguistics, CCL 2024, held in Taiyuan, China, during July 25–28, 2024.The 34 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 320 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Information Retrieval, Text Classification and QA; Text Generation, Dialogue and Summarization; Machine Translation and Multilingual Information Processi...

The Westphalian model of international relations has given us a zero-sum game of winners and losers that has proven to be ineffective in addressing the pressing issues of our times. Philosopher Zhao Tingyang has argued that by conceptualizing international relations from the planetary perspective of tianxia, we can develop a sense of “worldness” that at once acknowledges the plurality of moral ideals defining of the world’s cultures and seeks practical ways to formulate a shared m...

This book examines the development of Chinese literature journals and social ideologies from 1931 to 1938, combining first-hand historical materials, historical data and four important literature journals to study the competition and cooperation between various powers such as the Kuomintang, the CCP, the “Third Party”, and intellectuals. This book describes the most influential Chinese literature journals and their political background during that period, and explains the relations between...

Intent on proving her brother was murdered a decade ago, Ensley Cartier returns to the one place she vowed to never set foot in again. With the whole town against her, she finds an ally in Levi McGannon. He loves the land and the ranching way of life, but they quickly discover Cattle Cove isn’t the innocent town he once believed and somebody wants Ensley buried along with their secrets.Danger lurks around every corner. Hearts are on the line. Join USA TODAY Bestselling Author Barb ...

Brought to you by Penguin.The unforgettable novel from Booker International Prize winner Han Kang, author of The Vegetarian.In this compelling and beautifully-patterned novel, Han Kang tells the interwoven stories of a Greek instructor who is losing his sight and a woman who refuses to speak. Uniquely involving, and thoughtful, it explores the depths and limits of human connection.A remarkable and timeless writer, Han Kang'...

Originally published in 1963, this is a collection of true, authenticated accounts of experiences with "living" ghosts, written and compiled by the nationally recognized authority on psychic phenomena, Hans Holzer.This is a fascinating, astounding collection of the weird and inexplicable, including reports on:—The after-death messages from murdered financier Serge Rubinstein—The Bank Street ghost, discovered by a New York Times reporter—The falling mural of Arti...

AN ENTREPRENEUR'S GUIDE TO LIFE, SCIENCE, AND LEADERSHIP.Experiencing deep and diverse livelihoods in high science, business, and government offers no small assortment of important life lessons. If you internalize even a few of these lessons, there is the possibility—however minuscule or far-fetched it may seem—that you just might change the world.In his latest publication, Life, the Universe, and Curing Everything, internationally renowne...

In Ghosts of the Golden West, Hans Holzer and medium,Sybil Leek, head out west in search of the haunted, and the possessed. There's San Diego's Whaley House Ghosts; Count Wurmbrand, now deceased, who may or may not be the fulfillment of an ancient curse; an ambulance driver possessed by two victims; a disgruntled, displaced mother-in-law, sailors, Indians, Carole Lombard, Spanish monks, a disenchanted debutante and last but hardly least, a "topless" psychic who also happens to be the mother o...